bonbon

Borrowed from French bonbon, reduplication of bon (“good”), from Latin bonus.

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bonbon (plural bonbons)

1. A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
2. (cooking) A small, spherical savory snack or canapé.

   The terrine was served with black pudding bonbons.

3. (Australia, South Africa) A Christmas cracker.

• bonbón

• IPA^(key): [ˈbombon]
• IPA^(key): [ˈbomboːn]

bonbon m inan

1. candy

   Synonyms: cukrátko, cukrovinka, sladkost

• “bonbon”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bonbon”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from French bonbon.

• IPA^(key): /bɔnˈbɔn/

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• Hyphenation: bon‧bon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

bonbon m (plural bonbons, diminutive bonbonnetje n)

1. a praline, a small chocolate-covered candy/sweet

• → Indonesian: bonbon

Reduplication of bon.

The standard rule in French is to write m in front of /m/, /p/ or /b/ – the rule does not apply to the words derived from bon: embonpoint, bonbonne and bonbonnière.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.bɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

bonbon m (plural bonbons)

1. sweet, candy
   • 1964, Jacques Brel, “Les bonbons”, in Les bonbons:

     Je vous ai apporté des bonbons / Parce que les fleurs c'est périssable / Puis les bonbons c'est tellement bon / Bien que les fleurs soient plus présentables / Surtout quand elles sont en boutons / Mais je vous ai apporté des bonbons

     I brought you sweets / Because flowers are perishable / And the sweets are so good / Even though flowers would be more presentable / Especially when they're buds / But I brought you sweets

   • 2017 October 19, “Hallohallo”, in Le Coupe-Circuit [The Circuit Breaker], Konami:

     Hallo, hallo, vide du cerveau,
     Plus d’entrailles, pas de ventre rond.
     Friand de bonbons et chamallows,
     Attention à toi et à ton sac de bonbons.

     Hallo, hallo, brain is hollow,
     More of guts, none of a round belly.
     Tasty of sweets and marshmallows,
     Watch yourself and your sack of candy.

• bonbonnière
• coûter bonbon
• rose bonbon

• → Bulgarian: бонбон (bonbon)
• → English: bonbon
• → German: Bonbon
• → Ladino: bombón
• → Ottoman Turkish: بون بون (bonbon)
  • Turkish: bonbon
• → Portuguese: bombom
• → Romanian: bomboană
• → Sotho: dipompong
• → Spanish: bombón

bonbon

1. (slang) expensive

• “bonbon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch bonbon, from French bonbon, reduplication of bon (“good”), from Latin bonus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɔnbɔn]
• Hyphenation: bon‧bon
• Rhymes: -bon, -on, -n

bonbon (plural bonbon-bonbon)

1. (dialectal) bonbon

   Synonyms: kembang gula, gula-gula, permen

• “bonbon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

bonbon n (plural bonboane)

1. obsolete form of bomboană

• bonbon in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN